Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Vincent Riotta: Martini

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• Frances : Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly. You shouldn't have to wake up day after day after that, trying to understand how in the world you didn't know. The light just never went on, you know. I must have known, of course, but I was too scared to see the truth. Then fear just makes you so stupid.

  Martini : No, it's not stupid, Signora Mayes. L'amore e cieco.

  Frances : Oh, love is blind. Yeah, we have that saying too.

  Martini : Everybody has that saying because it's true everywhere.

• Martini : Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come.

• Martini : Signora. Please stop being so sad. If you continue like this, I will be forced to make love to you. And I've never been unfaithful to my wife.

• Frances : What are you thinking?

  Martini : What do I think?

  Frances : Tell me.

  Martini : I think you got your wish.

  Frances : My wish?

  Martini : On that day we looked for your snake, you said to me that you wanted there to be a wedding here. And then you said you wanted there to be a family here.

  Frances : You're right... I got my wish. I got everything I asked for.